New JLA animated show coming?

[Hotwire]

Pretty much anything that's not Regular Show, Adventure Time or Steven Universe on Cartoon Network is cursed.

Teen Titans Go! is holding on strong.

 

[2kt09]

To be fair, I think the sudden expansion of Korra from 1 to more hurt it. Considering the lead time these animated shows have, the sudden renewal mean that they kind of had to rush season 2.

They had to rush the entire show. There was no series bible this time around, but you can still make something worthwhile if you had a head writer to mitigate those shock value decisions. "Bryke" are artists, first and foremost, and storytellers much less so (I'm sure that sounds familiar).

Agree to disagree. Season two was weak but even then was still better than a lot of standard action animated product on networks like CN or Nick. I stand by what I posted. They could really make an amazing DC show based on either the League as a whole or WW or Supes. Frankly WW is long over due for her own solo cartoon and the Supes should have gotten a new one as well.

Nick didn't have much to speak of. Season 2 was the pinnacle of standard action animated product. It just looked good like the series always does.

Could you uh... name these shows better than Korra? Especially season 3 and 4 of Korra. I love TCW and Rebels, but they aren't better than that. Not close really. Voltron has been great so far, but it hasn't reached those heights.

The shows I know that were airing at the time were all about rebels against an imperialistic force. LoK was the imperialistic force against the rebels (sans s4) barely developing either side as being more than good vs evil which was a staple of ATLA.
I'll put it this way: LoK couldn't be more obvious of a deconstruction which never went away after the first season with bordering on intentional unlikable leads. Even with that, the writing was consistently not good enough/smart enough to make that satire work. Sound familiar?

The shows you mentioned (Rebels and Voltron) are better (from what little I've seen) because they have a well enough grasp with that conventional method. LoK does not with its more ambitious approach. There's no way TCW ends up being worse than LoK.

 

[TheVileOne]

Teen Titans Go! is holding on strong.

And Teen Titans Go

 

[DarthSkywalker]

IMO Voltron is good not great.

I would say Rebels is superior.

I really like Voltron, but I can in general agree with this. Voltron has been nice and breezy, like early Avatar. But I don't think we have gotten close to the what made a show like Avatar special. Rebels has a lot of fluff, but it is good fluff and nails the big moments imo.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

The shows I know that were airing at the time were all about rebels against an imperialistic force. LoK was the imperialistic force against the rebels (sans s4) barely developing either side as being more than good vs evil which was a staple of ATLA.
I'll put it this way: LoK couldn't be more obvious of a deconstruction which never went away after the first season with bordering on intentional unlikable leads. Even with that, the writing was consistently not good enough/smart enough to make that satire work. Sound familiar?

The shows you mentioned (Rebels and Voltron) are better (from what little I've seen) because they have a well enough grasp with that conventional method. LoK does not with its more ambitious approach. There's no way TCW ends up being worse than LoK.

I have watched every single episode of the shows mentioned here, multiple times. I wasn't the biggest Korra fan and I don't think it was nearly as consistent as season 2 and 3 of Avatar, where the show got truly great. But for 3 out of its 4 seasons, Korra was really good to great. In distinguished itself. Lorra wasn't "likable" a lot of the time, but she did learn. Ended up being a rather fine role model in the end.

TCW was really good a lot of the time. It was also really average to terrible a good part of the time. That was the error of the format.

 

[GamerSlyRatchet]

I don't buy the excuse that Legend of Korra came off as weak because they got an extended order all of the sudden. If we only got the one season of it, it still would've ended on a very weak note. It explains all the flaws with season two, though. People make fun of Greg Weisman for ending his shows with some unresolved plotlines, but that method probably would've led to a stronger season two.

Rebels has been fun, but it does have too much fluff and not much of a story arc per season. Season one was uneventful, but at least it felt like it was building up to its finale. The later two seasons feel so disjointed in comparison, too much like TCW despite Rebels having a different set-up.

Voltron has had a better start than Korra. It thankfully didn't dwell on the stupid melodrama that the latter was infected with early on. It does help that I consider the first two seasons to be a single, large one. It flows a lot better and makes the character and story focus more even by doing so.

DC Nation block was an unmitigated disaster.

It didn't have to be. They had a solid foundation block and the ratings were fine considering the time. CN just fumbled the execution badly. They messed up and got too greedy.

Teen Titans Go! is holding on strong.

CN was pushing Teen Titans Go before it even premiered. They gave it a lot of advantages other DC cartoons didn't get. Justice League Action is a bit of an improvement, but they're still shoving it off to very early morning.

 

[2kt09]

I don't buy the excuse that Legend of Korra came off as weak because they got an extended order all of the sudden. If we only got the one season of it, it still would've ended on a very weak note. It explains all the flaws with season two, though. People make fun of Greg Weisman for ending his shows with some unresolved plotlines, but that method probably would've led to a stronger season two.

This on both points!
Quite a lot of wonky writing in how Weisman was trying to resolve those plotlines in s2 while also introducing this vast universe of other teen superheroes.

 

[GamerSlyRatchet]

Has anybody been watching the new episodes this and last weekend? It's about time the US got some premieres for once!

 

[GamerSlyRatchet]

So, in addition to the show currently airing, there's also new animated shorts coming out. There's four total, each coming every Thursday.

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[signalman]

I thought the last episode was a BLAST, Jonah Hex and Space Cabbie.
Now that is a WEIRD WESTERN team up.

 

[GamerSlyRatchet]

Anyone still watching the series? These past few episodes have been strong. The Riddler one is probably my favorite one so far, and we still have roughly around 10 episodes left.

Plus, the shorts started coming out again.

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[RockSP]

Anyone still watching the series?

Yep.

 

[GamerSlyRatchet]

The rest of the series and the rest of the shorts are up on Cartoon Network's official website. Also, I think this weekend, all of the episodes have been "unlocked", so you don't need to have a cable subscription to watch them.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Officially on hulu for anyone interested.